Coronation Street star Adam Rickitt lost his showbiz fortune amid 15-year feud

The 47-year-old former actor and popstar first shot to fame as Nick Tilsley on Coronation Street in the late nineties and went on to release the 1999 single I Breathe Again and

Now Adam alleges his lent all his earnings to his father and they were never paid back, leading to a 15 year feud

.Speaking about his father – who is now dead– Adam told Vanessa Feltz: “If you google ‘Adam Rickitt net worth’ it comes up with a figure, it’s not that figure because [my dad] stole all my money. And he did it three times.

“So, even though I was 18 years old and did Corrie and did the pop music and money was coming in, it kept just going to him and he kept losing it. And then, when he made money – my dad was a very successful merchant banker – he was pulling in millions of pounds a year himself. But, he was also a flaming alcoholic.

“I kept lending him money, he kept wasting it, but then he would make money. And rather than paying me back, he’d go and spend it on his friends. He’d never spend it on his family or pay me back. So, we ended up falling out for 15 years.”

Adam – who is married to presenter and journalist Katy Rickitt and now owns a craft beer pub Dexter and Jones in Cheshire – added that he and his father eventually reconciled.

Meanwhile, back in 2022, Adam revealed that he had been scammed out of "tens of thousands of pounds" in a bank fraud.

The former Coronation Street and Hollyoaks star took to Instagram to share that he has been the victim of a sophisticated scam, where fraudsters impersonated staff from Barclays bank.

He wrote on Instagram: "CONFESSION TIME! I know a lot of people will laugh at me for this...but I want to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else. I got completely scammed this week by some fraudsters impersonating @barclaysuk. I was 100 per cent sure it was the bank, that they were helping me and that I wasn't even transferring funds or giving any details away.

"Alas the former wasn't true..they managed to duplicate everything I thought to be safe...they knew EVERYTHING about me and my history with the bank...

"I know we all think we know what to do or how to react...but honestly I have never known the stress it created over the course of the scam...and now the embarrassment I feel.

"I can't even begin to suggest how to protect yourself as I thought I was doing everything right...but please just be aware there's people out there who know exactly how to play the system. Be safe x"

Adam explained that the scammer made him believe he had been a victim of identity fraud, in order to trick him into cooperating with them and they eventually managed to take his money from his account.

He said: "So I got very nervous. They said what they needed me to do was do a dummy payment, and what it would do is trigger a member of the fraud department. I said no I didn’t want to. They said they would have to shut down the account, so I went back on to my account and sure enough the money was gone."